HI-AM 2025 expands scope with new tracks and keynotes from GM and Nikon
The eighth edition of the Conference on Holistic Innovation in Additive Manufacturing (HI-AM 2025) will take place July 23–24, 2025, at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Now established as a leading academic event for the AM sector, HI-AM provides an essential platform for knowledge exchange and networking.
The HI-AM Conference, managed under the NSERC Network for Holistic Innovation in Additive Manufacturing (HI-AM) between 2018 and 2024, is now continued under the HI-AM 2.0 project, which is also supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
This year’s conference features a wider array of research topics, allowing for a broader scope of innovation and collaboration. Delegates will also have the option to tour the University of Waterloo’s Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Lab.
Opening the event will be keynote presentations from GM and Nikon. The first, from Ante Lausic, Lead Process Engineer—Metal AM, General Motors, USA, is titled ‘Revved up but stalled: a tale of high hopes and low volumes.’ Behrang Poorganji, VP of Technology at Nikon, USA, will present a further keynote on ‘Integrated multi-scale solutions for accelerating industrial-grade Additive Manufacturing.’
The conference will run in two parallel tracks, featuring sessions on:
- Scaling Additive Manufacturing for Industry
- Directed Energy Deposition
- Powder Bed Fusion
- Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing
- Machine Learning in Additive Manufacturing
- Non-Metallic Additive Manufacturing
- Design for Additive Manufacturing
- Multiphysics Modelling and Digital Twins
- Metrology, Monitoring, and Controls
There will also be poster sessions and a conference dinner. Registration is free for members of the HI-AM 2.0 project. Non-members can register here.
